LEARN/CREATE (PT)

NOTE: When the Idaho Legislature is in session, programming on the Learn/Create and World channels may be pre-empted for live coverage from the House and Senate floors.

7:30 am

Woodsmith Shop"Table Saw Secrets: Box Joints"
Master this classic joinery technique. We fire up the table saw to show you the step-by-step techniques to building perfect box joint boxes - from making your own thin stock to cutting flawless-fitting joints on the table saw. D

8:00 am

The Victory Garden"Inspired Gardens"
This week, VICTORY GARDEN host Jamie Durie demonstrates how to create a dramatic bougainvillea espalier, inspired by the Getty Museum in California. Gardening correspondent Paul Epsom takes viewers on a "seasonal walk" through the world-famous New York Botanical Garden to demonstrate how to sustain a low-maintenance seasonal border all year long. Resident chef Michel Nischan teams up with renowned Boston-based chef Barbara Lynch to dry vegetables for year-round use and stir them up into a hearty Italian summer minestra - a flavorful soup that uses the garden to its best advantage. D

8:30 am

For Your Home"Gentlemen's Quarters, Part 8"
Vicki introduces the healthiest and easiest solution to rid basements of dampness and odors. Then she creates a perfect haven with natural accents and warm colors. D

Best of the Joy of Painting"Florida's Glory"
Bob Ross creates a clever painting -- lovely beach and palm trees within the shape of the state of Florida. D

10:00 am

New Scandinavian Cooking with Andreas Viestad"The Flatlands"
In southern Norway, Andreas makes his favorite pancakes from his grandmother's recipe. He also catches turbot, a flat fish, he prepares with vanilla and root vegetables.G

Unseen Life On Earth: An Introduction to Microbiology"Microbial Genetics"
Microorganisms have evolved several mechanisms for conserving and transmitting traits to each other. This episode investigates the three major mechanisms and how they enable microbes to not only pass on traits to off-spring but exchange them with each other within the same generation. Horizontal gene transfer is a major reason microbes can adapt so rapidly to environmental changes either natural or anthropogenic. D

12:30 pm

Unseen Life On Earth: An Introduction to Microbiology"The Tree of Life"
Recent advances in molecular techniques have led to new theories of evolution and the relationships among living organisms. The Tree of Life examines this "evolution revolution" using genetic sequencing techniques to trace the phylogentic history of microbial life. Both the big picture of microbial evolution and the methods necessary for determining molecular phylogenies are examined. D

1:00 pm

Mechanical Universe And Beyond, The"Velocity and Time"
Einstein is motivated to perfect the central ideas of physics, resulting in a new understanding of the meaning of space and time. D

Biography of America, A"Growth and Empire"
Benjamin Franklin and Franklin's Philadelphia take center stage in this program. As the merchant class grows in the North, the economies of southern colonies are built on the shoulders of the slave trade. Professor Miller brings the American story to 1763 with the Peace of Paris and English dominance in America. D

2:30 pm

Biography of America, A"Coming of Independence"
Professor Maier tells the story of how the English-loving colonist transforms into the freedom-loving American rebel. The luminaries of the early days of the Republic -- Washington, Jefferson, Adams -- are featured in this program as they craft the Declaration of -- and wage the War for -- Independence. D

3:00 pm

Curiosity Quest"Moonridge Animal Park"
Join Joel on this quest as he journeys through the Moonridge Animal Park in Big Bear, California. Watch as the Curiosity Quest crew gets up close, and personal with deer and experiences a rare, and endangered snow leopard. D

3:30 pm

Biz Kid$"Are You Financially Literate?"
Understanding how to manage your money before you get to high school will make you even more successful when you head to college or move out on your own. Explore the skills of goal setting, budgeting, saving, and money management that make you financially literate!G

Cyberchase"A Perfect Fit"
The monster Gigabyte returns! The bad guys bring Gigabyte to a remote, Mayan-style pyramid on cybersite Jimaya. The CyberSquad must work their way past a variety of obstacles, and block the rays of the sun before it can energize the metal monster and cause chaos!. D

Primal Grill with Steven Raichlen"Bombay Blast"
More than 5000 years ago, a potter in Central Asia made a tall, urn-shaped, incredibly efficient clay barbecue pit-the origin of the Indian tandoor. Today, tandoori, Indian barbecue, is enjoyed from New Delhi to New Caledonia to New York. This show features tandoori salmon (washed with garlic water and marinated in spices, yogurt, and chickpea flour). D

Burt Wolf: What We Eat"Domesticated Bliss: The Story of Livestock In America"
Burt traces the changes brought to America with the introduction of chicken, pigs, horses and cattle from Europe.G

10:00 pm

Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence"Rustic Yet Refined"
Joanne makes us a classic Italian frico and then with her student Stephanie demonstrates how rustic and refined can work well together in the same meal, making a spiced lentil and herb salad and halibut wrapped in prosciutto. Recipes: Frico with Bacon and Potatoes, Prosciutto di San Daniele-Wrapped Halibut Fillet, and Spiced Lentils and Herb Salad. Student: Stephanie Gerbracht, Wine Sales. D

10:30 pm

Rick Steves' Europe"Vienna and the Danube"
Rick takes in the city's wealth of elegant gardens, great art and fine music. He travels along the Danube River and hikes through the Baroque Melk Abbey.G

11:00 pm

Great Conversations"Tom Brokaw and Rick Atkinson"
Tom Brokaw ("NBC Nightly News" anchor and managing editor, author of Boom! Aftershocks of the Sixties) and Rick Atkinson (Washington Post reporter and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his book An Army at Dawn). D